Fred Itua, Abuja

The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), said it has fully commenced the payment of the new N30,000 minimum wage.

The Director, FCT Treasury Department, Mr Ismaila Ishiaku, disclosed this while speaking to newsmen in Abuja.

According to the Director, the minimum wage backlog arrears Of N4 billion a from April 2019 was also cleared.

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He said: “The minimum wage was to start, effective from April 2019, but its implementation began in December, and because the directive from the Federal Government came after, we in the FCT had already paid the December salary (because we pay very early).

“We calculated arrears in the second week of January. We calculated the arrears from April to December. In other words, we have paid for December.

“So, we have paid the minimum wage from April to December last year, because the effective date for the new Minimum Wage based on the agreement with labour was April 2019. The arrears we cleared was about N4 billion.

“Now, we have also prepared the January salary with the minimum wage. So, FCT is on the move. There is no issue of backlog and the payment was not in installments. We paid everything at once.”